Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-04-22

Butler now has dramatic club with
Mr.. A. N. Dyer as president, Alex. Russell
treasurer, and w. j. Heineman secretary.
Spring is coyly slipping the warm wealth.
er again, but in q few weeks 1t will have all
fourfeet in the trough.
There has been more dangerously fast
driving IN and about Butler during the past
two weeks than has ever before been noticed
in the town.
The Pittsburg Gazette becomes better
paper with each succeeding year. 1t is
printed by Butler boys, and Butler people
should be proud of it.
The spring bonnet is a story and half
(m0re or less) higher than last season, which
is comforting to those who have to sit behind
them in church, opera, etc.
In making up our paper last week, the
P. & W. time table was pied, and as there
will be a new time table for that road next
week, we will let it go till then.
Our farmers and gardeners should raise
more onions. Our grocers have been supply
ing the Butler market for weeks by shipping
them here from Pittsburg.
"A foot or two below the level of the Dia-
mond where Main street crosses it, there is q
vein Of slate coal which would make an ex.
ceilent road bed, and the street should be
graded down to it.
An exchange suggests it is dangerous for
young ladies to 90 out in the early spring,
because the grass has blades; the rose has
Pistils; the Gro -cusses; the bull rushes, and
the trees shoot
The Chautauqua Assembly authorities
are considering the advisability of removing
the damaged trees on the Assembly grounds
and replacing them with new ones of greater
uniformity in appearance.
A. local examination for admission to
Princeton College will be held at Pittsburg
in June. For further inform alton apply to
W. A. Robinson, 3l6 Ridge Avenue, Alle-
gheny, Pa.
March borrows from April
Three days, and they are i'll,
and as April seems to have returned the COM
phnent, we can expect more settled weather
tor the balance of the month.
An editor was asked by young man
what sort of a wife he had better get to go
with him to the frontier, and hew out for
themselves a farm and fortune, advises him
to find the one photographed in Proverbs
XXI, 10 81.
The school directors elected at the last
February election will not participate in the
election of County Superintendent next
month. They do not take the oath OF offics
till the first Monday of June
There was drunken row at the P. &
W. depot Monday evening, and there has
been 4 row in town almost every night since
the bars we're opened, and if this thing con-
tinuoo mill uoo1 1n1ou nnlioapna, hara
before the year ends.
There is q new announcement for Coun-
ty Commissioner this week, that of Mr.. Phil.
lip Hilliard. Of billiards Station. Washing
ton township. Esq. Hilliard was a County
Commissioner some thirty years ago, and he
...aSs.. .sitss US tb. be will be unable to make
We are under obligations to the Mercer
Dispatch and Republican, Grove City Tele-
phone, K1ttanning Iepubticam, Petrolia Rec.
ord, Millerstown Herald, Sharpsburg Osser-
Ger, Butler Times, ,Zelienople Neacs and perhaps
TO other papers whose notices escaped our eye,
for complimentary reference to our efforts to
Improve our paper.
The hotel keepers of this town have got.
ten up "black-list" of all the men of
known intemperate habits in the town, and
8lBO VI tuObt young utu VINO arc bdlu W DC
noisy when under the influence of liquor,
and are refusing to sell them. The list is
said to be headed by a shining light of the
legal profession, with celebrated doctor"
for good second.
one Of us should plant a tree. If the saying
that "he who makes two blades of grass grow
where bat one grew before is a public bene-
factor" be true, then how much greater will
be the benefcence if he who makes one
tree grow where none grew before, particu-
larly if it be planted along the street or road
and grows up to shade the tired traveller.
If you can't plant your tree to-day do it to-
morrow, or as soon as you have time.
MIR. Will Stein, of the firm of l.. Stein &
Son, has Just returned from his visit to the
New York dry goods market where he pur-
chased large stock of Spring and Summer
goods of the latest patterns and fashions go
ing. These goods are now arriving and be-
ing opened. fact which our lady readers
should note. Read the new locals of this
firm in this weeks paper.
Some one asks, Did you ever watch
baby AZ he opens his beautiful eyes in the
morning? Great heavepsl Yes, at two
O'Clock A, NJ. with the mercury at zero. and
when with garment to scant tor the occa-
sion the doting parent hunts for the pin thai
saases the trouble and finds that it's nothing
but total depravty. Please don't sentmen-
tslize on that subject; it will not bear the
strain.
The King. BxoelI wedding procession,
consisting Of four couples and as many rigs,
arrived in front Of the Court House from
East Brady about half past ten Of last Tues
day morning. Here the procession halted
and the happy couple went in and secured
their license, and then it moved on to the
residence of Rev. Limberg, who performed
the ceremony. The selfpossession OF the
groom was noted by all.
Mr.. Gylvanus Cooper, of Slipperyrock
township, and Mr.. Joseph r. Moore, of
Grove City, both supplied our citizens this
week with some of the best of maple syrup.
Mr.. Cooper has had a camp on his farm for
many years, and it is DOW almost the only
camp in the county. Mr.. Moore, formerly
of this county, makes an excellent article OF
syrup On his present farm near Grove City.
They both visited our Office on Wednesday
last, and each left as two cans Of their make
Of pure maple syrup.
With a knock down ON our streets or in
our hotels almost every night men being
committed TO Jail every day for being drunk
and disorderly, men beating their wives and
1nmIting ladies on our streets, men drunk on
our streets who were never before known to
drink. jarymen under the influence of liquor,
and very old men drunk on our streets, the
results Of license are apparent; the office of
the District Attorney of Butler county be-
comes profitable. and our justices and consta-
bies reap rich harvest, but the bills against
the county will aggregate q large sum by the
end Of the year. The Democratic politicians
Of the county fully appreciate the signif.
cance of the rlsult of the late license court.
the Butler ahA Millerstown HeraLds defend
the most efficient ally the Democratic
party bas ever had in this county, and COM
pare the ~omen of the w. C. T. U. to cranks,
fanatics and al archists. Ziegler now has
meaningless motto at the head of his paper.
He should take it down, and until the ides
of November. at least, "Hprrah for Whisky,
Hell ON Earth and Democratic Victory in
'87."